Stanford R&DE uses AI to alter race and appearance in student advertising photos
Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising
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Stanford's Residential & Dining Enterprises (R&DE) was exposed for using AI to modify the race and appearance of students in its advertising photos. Student Billy Ramirez '27 discovered that he was removed from the original photo, replaced by an AI-generated Black woman, and the two students to his right were also edited to look thinner. Ramirez said he felt silenced and erased, and opposed the university presenting student images in this way.